Coming to think of it, since the .so requirement is only applicable to small subset of our libraries, I guess we could make an init script that creates the .so soft links according to what is currently the latest version on the system. Otherwise we would need to update the software doing dlopen() every time the library major version is stepped. Since that software is not under our complete control that could end up very difficult.
Otherwise, I fully agree that the .so files should not really be needed if only ld is involved. Why can not things just be simple ;) Hans On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Hans Beckérus <hans.becke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: >> On 23 May 2013 15:50, Hans Beckérus <hans.becke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> But in the rpm, the libs are packaged incorrectly (or at least not as >>> expected) >> >> There (should) also be a linx-dev package, that contains the .so >> symlinks. .so symlink files are only needed at compilation time for >> properly versioned libraries. >> >> Ross > Well, yes and no ;) If I look in /lib there are plenty of libraries > that comes with .so files so it seems they are needed in some cases, > right? Also, since part of our system software is doing loading of > dynamic libraries themselves using dlopen() it is *very* hard to > enforce removal of .so files since that piece of software does not > know what particular version of the library it should use. It should > load whatever .so points to, most commonly the latest version. So, is > there some way for us to make sure .so files are also part of the > .rpm? we do not wish to install the -dev variant since it also > pollutes the system with a lot of other not needed stuff. Since /lib > is having a lot of of .so files it must be possible, or? > Actually, I have never seen a system that does not include also the > .so files? Not even embedded ones. They are only soft links so > flash/ram/disk space is not really an issue here. > > Hans > > > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.bur...@intel.com> wrote: >> On 23 May 2013 15:50, Hans Beckérus <hans.becke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> But in the rpm, the libs are packaged incorrectly (or at least not as >>> expected) >> >> There (should) also be a linx-dev package, that contains the .so >> symlinks. .so symlink files are only needed at compilation time for >> properly versioned libraries. >> >> Ross _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
